variola
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- variolar adjective
Etymology
Origin of variola
1795–1805; < Medieval Latin, equivalent to Latin vari ( us ) speckled ( various ) + -ola -ole 1
Example Sentences
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And variola’s genome is so large that it is exceedingly difficult for even experts to assemble.
From Science Magazine
In the teeth and bones of four Northern Europeans from the Viking era, they found enough DNA to reconstruct entire variola genomes.
From Science Magazine
Monkeypox is a poxvirus in the same family as variola – the virus that causes smallpox – and cowpox viruses and likely evolved in animals before jumping to humans.
From Scientific American
The variola virus, which causes smallpox, is the only disease to have been eradicated by human medicine.
From Salon
The C.D.C.’s campus in Atlanta is home to one of two Level 4 labs left in the world that harbors the live variola virus, which causes smallpox and was declared eradicated globally in 1980.
From New York Times
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